Hey everybody, welcome. And thank you for listening to this episode of Marriage Therapy Radio.

My name is Zach Brittle. I'm here with Laura Heck. Today we're talking about conflict. I love talking

about conflict and something that's been coming up in my office a lot, basically the idea of what do you

do when you just gain too much steam? Maybe you're out of control, going too fast, like you're on a highway.

And then how are we looking for, you know, off ramps or speed bumps even or maybe even

just lanes, something to help us make sense of when conflict can get out of control.

I also share with you a story, one of my favorite pieces of

relationship advice that I learned when I was just a tiny baby man. So that's fun to kind of revisit

that. And also, yeah, this is a very cool conversation. Stick around. I mean, you got to go to work.

I have to go to work. My, I was, I mean, I've been telling you for a week,

don't touch this week, Zach, because this, this week is bonker balls for me. And in fact,

it got even better where my vehicle is trapped in my garage. You miss the story as I was telling

it to Jason, but my vehicle is tracked in the garage. And I understand he's like, can't you pull the manual thing? I'm like, I could, but the actual garage function, like the door is broken. So that part's trapped. And I was like, no problem. Get in the sprinter, Holden. And I was like, oh, no, I have three non-working seatbelts back there on the bench seat. I was like, get in the front seat, Holden. He bursts into tears. And he's like, I don't want to do anything illegal. That's funny. You're talking to Jason. We were, okay, so we were talking to Jason like the last 10 minutes or so because can you, hey, out there in radio, do you hear our new microphones? They're pretty awesome. We finally, I got an email from a guy who was like, hey, really congratulations on the I heart radio thing. Your sound still sucks. I was like, thanks, man. You know, I'm not an audio engineer, but we're working on it. I didn't understand. And I actually thought it was like some kind of a pact that you and

Jason had. By the way, this guy, we keep talking about Jason is the man behind the scenes that does everything for us. And, um, except for his own laundry, apparently his dryers. No, no, no, but this is, this is why I thought of him, though, because of the garage store, he and I are like the exact opposite. but his wife came outside.

He told us this story.

His wife came outside and said, hey, the dryer's not working anymore.

So he was like, okay.

So he was like, okay. So he went inside and he disassembled the dryer and found out the heating element was broken and spent $25 on Amazon to get it fixed. That's what people used to do back in the day. The dryer's not broken. I'm like, oh gosh, I guess we're

a little house on the prairie now and we're going to have to like hang out of the, take it down to the wall. I'm going to call the guy and the guy's like, I can be there in three weeks and then he orders the part, which is back ordered by like, you know, another two weeks. So we don't have any laundry at all. We're like wearing our togas for Christmas.

We started ripping the curtains off of the walls to make togas. Jason put a whole new staircase in his house and I can't hang a picture on my wall. Well, that's okay. That's, I mean, that's my husband also. He like, if anything breaks. Wait, he's a Jason or he's a me? No, he's a you. And I grew up with a single mom who couldn't

afford to hire people. You're like, well, guess we're not driving anymore. Exactly. I was like, oh, good thing I've got this e-bike here. I guess we're walking everywhere. Hop on Holden and Holden's three friends I'm supposed to transport. We're all going somewhere on this one e-bike. anyway man to this week just add one more thing to the mix. But yes, our quality sounds

really good, sound quality. And I was going to tell you, a couple of my girlfriends that I've

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